Gaming Method, System and Apparatus Incorporating Personalized Guaranteed Prize Structure

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20100151929A1
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12397787

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The present invention facilitates new gaming opportunities by providing a personalized guaranteed value prize structure tied to a gaming player identifier. The identifier is associated with one or more virtual books of tickets, wherein the book(s) of tickets include a guaranteed prize structure that can provide a pre-determined value of winning prize tickets among all of the tickets therein. In one embodiment of the present invention, the prize structure implements a losing run limit such that no more than a pre-determined number of losing tickets in a row are experienced by the player. Once a virtual book of tickets is assigned, the player can reveal the results using various different terminals, including, for example, retailer terminals, home computers and mobile communications devices. The tickets and their values can be populated in each book in advance or dynamically as the user plays each ticket.

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GTECH CORPORATION10 MEMORIAL BOULEVARD PROVIDENCE RI 02903

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Finocchio, Richard G Everett, US 4 264
Oram, Thomas K Hudson, US 24 1481

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